Class quad baling charge

Cropper

Member
Location
N. Glos
£4.60 for a 8*4*3 here. Bales average 400kg. Has been a 25p/bale increase for the last two years. Don't mind paying a bit extra as the guy has a fleet of balers next door and hasn't like us down.

I’m paying £5.60 for 8*4*3 here, I think I’d better haggle a bit next year!
 

tr250

Member
Location
Northants
£4.60 for a 8*4*3 here. Bales average 400kg. Has been a 25p/bale increase for the last two years. Don't mind paying a bit extra as the guy has a fleet of balers next door and hasn't like us down.
Would say this is about right for 120x90 we charge £3.60 for 120x70 and that works out the same per ton but 120x70 uses more string per ton
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Just had the bill in December for work done at harvest?
Why would you get someone in without asking the price first?:scratchhead:

I don’t ask what my regular baling contractors will charge, I trust them not to take the pee and be somewhere ‘about right’. If not, we would be looking elsewhere, but we all tend to work on the theory that the job’s got to be fair for everyone.
I’d certainly get a ballpark figure from anyone new though, if I was needing to look elsewhere for any reason.

One of them never sorts his invoices until the following March too, usually after i’ve Pushed him, which is obviously worth a bit too. Plenty of contractors locally don’t sort their invoices out until the work steadies down and they have time to catch up, and when they know the sub has arrived of course. Seems fair enough as long as everyone plays fair, which most do.
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
I don’t ask what my regular baling contractors will charge, I trust them not to take the pee and be somewhere ‘about right’. If not, we would be looking elsewhere, but we all tend to work on the theory that the job’s got to be fair for everyone.
I’d certainly get a ballpark figure from anyone new though, if I was needing to look elsewhere for any reason.

One of them never sorts his invoices until the following March too, usually after i’ve Pushed him, which is obviously worth a bit too. Plenty of contractors locally don’t sort their invoices out until the work steadies down and they have time to catch up, and when they know the sub has arrived of course. Seems fair enough as long as everyone plays fair, which most do.

Fair enough. There just seem to be a lot of threads on here that are similar and i always wonder, do people actually communicate with each other any more?
Must be a lot of money in the job if people can wait that long to get paid.
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
Nobody seems to mention the area or the tonnage? Surely it is difficult to blanket price or do the contractors bury the less profitable more difficult jobs under the best?

Good point it seems the contractor has put their price up 50p which apparently is too much but did they bale 100 or 10,000?
Did they have a new baler that gets a heavier bale etc.
 

Surgery

Member
Location
Oxford
Fair enough. There just seem to be a lot of threads on here that are similar and i always wonder, do people actually communicate with each other any more?
Must be a lot of money in the job if people can wait that long to get paid.
The guys a neighbouring farmer who’s has done such work for 20 years plus , i would expect a conversation pria to baling that the price has gone up from someone who came to our wedding! I did have someone with an xd 120-90 come in to do some more , he charged £5-50 a bale hence why I asked the question , how much were folk paying for a smaller less dense class bale.
 

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